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DID YOU KNOW? In spite of Albert’s love

for America and its many
The FBI was worried freedoms, there was one
about Albert’s political
beliefs. They even kept aspect of the country that
a secret file on him! he felt needed to change—

racism. Racism is the hatred
of a group of people based

solely on their skin color or ethnicity.
America’s past was full of horrific racist

incidents, which included everything from
refusing people service at a restaurant to

burning down their homes, beating them,
or even killing them.

As someone who believed in civil rights
and that all people had equal value, Albert

found this completely unacceptable. He
remembered all too well the racism directed

at Jews in Hitler’s Germany, and he was
afraid that he was seeing people behave

in a similar way in his new country.

What are Equality and freedom for all people. Many
civil rights? people in the US at this time did not have the
same basic civil rights that white people did.

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